Wagon-tongue.



3 PATENTED MAY 7, 1907.

H. B. NOLEN. v WAGON TONGUE. y

APPLICATION FILED JULY 19, 1906.

Arron/Mrs TH: uokms PETERS co., WASHING1ON, n. c.

UNITED STATES PATENT FFIQE.

HILRY BURR N OLEN OF LAMAR, WASHINGTON.

WAGON-TONGUE.

Patented May '7, 1907'.

Original application filed June 30,1905, Serial No. 267,725. Divided and this application filed July 19,1906. Serial No. 326.85 1.

To (all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, HILRY BURR N OLEN, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Lamar, in the county of Walla Walla and State of Washington, have invented a new and Improved Wagon-Tongue, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact descrip tion, this being a division of the application filed by me June 30, 1905, and for which Letters Patent were issued May 15, 1906, No. 820,820.

The purpose of the invention is to provide a construction of wagon tongue especially adapted for use in connection with agricultural implements, which tongue can be expeditiously and conveniently attached to the frame of an implement in such manner that it will insure the tongue being perfectly ri "id and fast to the frame and not liable to dis placement under the most severe usage.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of the several parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth and pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference .indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a plan view of the improved tongue and a plan view of the portion of the frame to which the tongue is applied and Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section taken practically on the line 22 of Fig. 1.

A represents a longitudinal beam of the frame of a vehicle or agricultural implement, which is centrally located and extends in direction of the front and the rear of the frame structure; and B represents a cross bar upon which the longitudinal beam A rests.

0 represents the improved tongue. This tongue is provided at its forward end with a metal loop 10, and the said loop section of said tongue is further provided with a downwardly-extending projection 11 to which the neck yoke may be attached, or a corresponding portion of a harness.

At the inner end of the vehicle tongue 0 an attaching tongue 12 is provided, being an ex in Fig. 2, and said attaching tongue 12 is located about centrally between the top and the bottom of the vehicle tongue and extends practically from side to side of the same; and the said attaching tongue 12 of the vehicle tongue G is fitted into a corresponding recess or opening 13 made in the cross bar B, as is clearly shown in Fig. 2. The said attaching tongue 12 of the vehicle tongue C fits snugly in the recess 13 but is not attached directly to the cross bar B. In connection with the vehicle tongue C a bracket D is employed, which consists of a horizontal member 14 fitted to lie snugly on the upper face of the vehicle tongue 0 at its rear end, being attached thereto by screws 15 or their equivalents and in the further formation of the bracket D an angular or substantially L-shaped rear section 16 is provided, which is fitted to the foward face of the longitudinal beam A and lies upon the upper surface of said beam, being attached thereto by one or more screws or bolts 17 or their equivalents; and said vehicle tongue 0 is provided with side braces 18, firmly attached to the side surfaces of the said vehicle tongue near its rear endand 'to the cross bar B at each side of the point Where the attaching tongue 12 enters said cross bar.

It is evident from'the foregoing construction that the tongue or pole of a vehicle of any description can be firmly secured to the frame and positively held in position until it is desired to remove it, and that the tongue or pole will withstand all strain to which it may be subjected in a forward direction or laterally.

Having thus described my invention, 1 claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,

1. In a vehicle provided with a longitudinal beam, a tongue having a horizontal centrally located extension at the rear end thereof, a cross bar below the beam having an opening to receive the extension, and a bracket secured to the tongue and to the longitudinal beam.

2. As an improved article of manufacture, a vehicle tongue or pole provided with an attension from the vehicle tongue as is shown taching tongue forming a horizontal cenfor said vehicle tongue or pole.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of lo two subscribing witnesses.

HILRY BURR NOLEN.

Witnesses:

CHAS. H. ONEIL, HUGH ONEIL. 

